totally ruined, as $:4om and Gomrrah, fo as there fhovlk! he vo Habitations tor Nen, but wild Beaſts only uf all foris ſhould in habit and lodge 13 it. The tulhlling of this we have notin ho!y Writ, only the beginning of its accomyl:ſhment, it bejog taken by Cyrus who only made them Tributaries, and took away their Government. But they rebeliing againſt the Empercur of the AMfriles, Darius Hiſt afjis a Iicceedng Emperour pulled down their Walls. And abou 250 Years a' er Selenczs Nicanor, a Grecian Prince, the Aeles being before corquered by Al-xander ihe Great, ut- rerly deflroved Bubylzy, fo as in the time of Hadrian the Roman Finperour, there was neting lett ſtanding of chat great City bur fome pieces of Walls-
41 * Behold, a people ſhall come from the north,» c1.;>, and a great nation, and many kings ſhall be raijed up. z 2.
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d The Afedes and Perſians with their Armies, who {hall a!fo have many other Kings, who from the ſeveral parts of the carth ſhall! joyn wth them and help them.
42 They ſhall hold the bow and the lance e : they are cruel and will not ſhew mercy 7- * their voice * i ſh1ll roar like the ſeas, and they ſhall ride! pon hor- ſes, every oze PUL In array like a man to the battle, againit thee, O daughter of Babylon g. | e Ticle were the two utyrl weapons of Soldiers ſa thoſe Cour-
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them, and his hands waxed tceble : * anguiſh took | hold on him, az Pangs as of a woman in tra- CP, 49, 2.
vall þ, þ The Aedzs ſhall not be more prepared to deſtroy the Bahylo- nians, than they ſhall be unprepared co makeany rehitance ;- as God will animate their Eneinies, to he will ditptrir themyto as they ſhall faint upon the repoxt of their coming, aud be like a Woman upon whom ſtrong pangs of Travail are. 44. Behold he ihall come up * like a hon from the . ". a » {\wejling of Jordan uato the habitation of the frons -
Lane !tt bur 1 will make them ſaddenly run away from her , ** and who z a choſen mz th. 1 may appoint over her? for who z like me ? and who will || appoint me the; Or, cor- time ? and who :s chat ſhepherd that will ſtand be- wne m2 cs fore me ? treat,
45 Therefore hear ye the counſel of che LORD, that he hath tzkea againtt Babyion, aud kis purps- ſes that he hath purpoſed againſt che iand oc che Chaldeans - furely rhe leaſt of the Rock (hall draw
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k We have much famethe ſpoken with reterence toEdem, 4 9. 20. The words are only expreſlive of the greatneſs of the deſtruction of Babylon, which ſhould be tuch as ſhould make all that part of the World ſhake, aid the noite of 1t would ring throughout all the Nations in that part of te Earth.
CH APELI
The frere Fulament of Gol againſt Feluptuous, Cevetous, Tyrannt- ca! and Idotatrous Babel, ia the Reverge, and for the Kedempiion sf Liracl, t, —= 5. Jeremiah delivereth rhe Book, of this Pro- hecy 10 Seratah, robe caſt into Euphrates,-7n tclcen of the perpe- tu ſinhing of Babylon, 59, 6.J»
] Hus ſaith the LORD, Behold, I will raiſe up azainlt Babylon, and : 221n{t chem that dwell in + the midſt of chem that rite up againlt me, a de- ttroying wind 2. z Inthis Chapter the Prophecy of the deſtruction of Babylon is contivued under new Metaphors ; he begins with that of a Wind, a deitroying Wind, (as northerly Winds are ordinarily very pernicious) but the Hebrew Idiom lo 111 tuite:h thar of other Languages, that it is noeafie matter poſirively to aſſert the fenle of the worcs uled. In the Hebrew they are and to, or againſt thoſe that inhabit the heart of thoſe that riſe up. Son:e would have 1t,thote that are wile in their own opinion, and are theretore faid to do well in their heart. Others, thoſe that are iecure ; but the beſt interpreters judge our Tranſlation to have beſt hit the lence, them that dmell in the heart, 1. e. nat 1s 1n the midſt of the Chaldeans, who are here ſaid to have rilen up agatalt God, to {trive againſt God, Chap. 50. 2.4 F
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7 Babylon #arh been *a golden cup in the LORD's * Rey, ,. hand, that madeall the earth druken /: the nations 1: &t7.,
have druken of her wine, therefore the nations arc made 17. |
! A golden Cup, becauſe of her great Riches and Plenty. God hitherto had made ule of Bzbylon, asa Rod in his Hand, and had given her Richesand Power, and Proſperity proportioned to the Service he had for her to do ; what ſhe did ſhe did by commiſti- on from God, therefore this Gold?n Cup ts ſaid to have been in theLord's Hand; ſhe had made ajl the Nations about her drunken with the Lord's Fury. m Conquering them all, and making them mad through che mitery and [mart they telr from her. Babylon in Daniel 1s compared to an head of Gold ; and Rev. 17. 4. ſhe 1s laidto have had a Golden Cup in ber Hand, but the meaning is no more than this, That God hath raiſed up Babylon to greet degrees of dignity and ſplendour intending to make uſ2 of her to execute his Vengeance upon many other People, and he did accordingly lo ule her, to give the Cup of his Fury to many Nations to the enraging of divers People, but now the courſe of his Providence coward her was altering, 7c.
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9 We would have healed Babylon, but ſhe 1s not. healed .*.; forſake her, and let us go every one to his own Country oz for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is litted up eve to the skies p.
_*- The Prophet here leemeth to perſonate che mercenary Sol- d.ers that ſhould come to help the Chaldeans, as it they ſhould lay this, They would have helped Babylon, but there was no healing tor her. o And therefore they call one tc another to leave her to heg ſelf, and return every Man to his own Country. p For her pu-